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minus-square intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) linkfedilinkEnglish12•6 months agoScience is not the truth. Science is a mechanism for finding the truth.
minus-square mortemtyrannis ( @mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ) linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoWhat is truth? If you take a materialist philosophical view, maybe you can arrive at some kind of understanding of the universe through the scientific method. If you have other views things get far more complicated. I’m a materialist atheist btw but delving into philosophy makes me less certain we can ever arrive at ‘truth’.
Science is not the truth. Science is a mechanism for finding the truth.
What is truth?
If you take a materialist philosophical view, maybe you can arrive at some kind of understanding of the universe through the scientific method.
If you have other views things get far more complicated.
I’m a materialist atheist btw but delving into philosophy makes me less certain we can ever arrive at ‘truth’.